Franklin W Dixon

"The Secret of the Old Mill" is the third installment in the "Hardy Boys" series of mystery stories. Written by Canadian author Charles Leslie McFarlane and published under the pen name, Franklin W. Dixon, in 1927, "The Secret of the Old Mill" ranks as one of the best books in the series. In this thrilling installment, readers find the Hardy brothers, Joe and Frank, investigating the mysterious appearance of counterfeit money in their small town of...

Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving the illegal drug trade. Hardy sends Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location offers an excellent vantage point to watch for smugglers. The Hardy Boys are tricked into going inside the house by cries for help and find themselves trapped for a short time in the attic, meanwhile, their telescope and motorcycles...

The Hardy brothers try to find out who is behind a rash of automobile thefts that are occurring on Shore Road just outside of Bayport.

When the daughter of Bayport's amusement park owner goes missing, Joe and Frank follow clues to find the girl and determine if her disappearance is related to that of another missing person.

An archaeological expedition in the West turns into a desperate attempt to capture robbers and an escaped convict.

The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.

Timber wolves, a rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery.

The Hardy boys and their father solve a mystery involving inexplicable crashes of highspeed race cars being used to test an experimental turbine motor.